Blue Rondo (aka Flesh Wounds)

John Lawton’s debut novelfirst published by Viking in 1995, and now
being reissued by Grove Pressis a stunning, war-time thriller that
cements his place among the greatest crime writers of our era. The first
of the Inspector Troy novels, Black Out singularly captures the
realities of wartime London, weaving them into a riveting drama that
encapsulates the uncertainty of Europe at the dawn of the postwar
era.London, 1944. While the Luftwaffe makes its final assault on the
already battered British capital, Londoners rush through the streets,
seeking underground shelter in the midst of the city’s black out. When
the panic subsides, other things begin to surface along with London’s
war-worn citizens. A severed arm is discovered by a group of children
playing at an East End bomb site, and when Scotland Yard’s Dective
Sergeant Frederick Troy arrives at the scene, it becomes apparent that
the dismembered body is not the work of a V-1 rocket. After Troy manages
to link the severed arm to the disappearance of a refugee scientist
form Nazi Germany, America’s newest intelligence agency, the OSS,
decides to get involved. The son of a titled Russian émigré, Troy is
forced to leave the London he knows and enter a corrupt world of bloody
consequences, stateless refugees, and mysterious women as he unearths a
chain of secrets leading straight to the Allied high command.